Corner structure for inclosures



J. K. SHAW.

CORNER STRUCTURE FOR INCLOSURES.

APPUCATION FILED IAY 23| |918.

1 Patented May 3, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN K. SHAW, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR T0 B. G. DAIILBERG, OF

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

l Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mays, 1921.

Application led May 23, 1918. Serial No. 236,164.

To all whom 25 may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN K. SHAW, a citizen of the United States;residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful improvements in CornerStructures for Inclosures; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to buildings and other structures, and has for.its object to provide a corner construction for the same which will beneat in appearance'and at the same time adapted to protect the end edgesof the paper boards made of material.

With this and other objects in view the invention consists in the noveldetails of construction and combinations of parts more fully hereinafterdisclosed and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of thisspecification in which like numerals designate like parts in all theviewsz Figure 1 is a perspective View of a corner of a building made inaccordance with this invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the lines 2-2 of Figs. l and 3,looking in the direction of the arrows;

F ig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, looking inthe direction of the arrows.

1, 2 and 3 indicate the timbers of anya suitable corner construction, 4and 5 the timbers or side wall constructions, and 6 and 7 boards made ofheat insulating board material to be described below. '8 indicates anintegral corner piece preferably of wood having the side .edges 9 and 10against which the boards 6 and 7 respectively abut, and also providedwith the shoulders or ofi'- set members 12 and'13 which serve largelyfor ornamental urposes. The boards 6 and 7 differ from ot er boardmaterials in that -they are very light and porous, they have a edgesabut, serve to protect said end edges both from the Weather and frommechanical abrasion.

It is preferred to overlap succeeding boards 6 of one side wall as bestillustrated in Fig. 2, and to overlap the corresponding set of boards 7constituting the other side wall, as will be clear from Fig. 1. Theoverlapping of the two sets of boards 6 and 7leaves triangular spaceswhich are conveniently filled by the Wedge like pieces 15 as will beclear from Fig. 2.

The corner pieces 1 and 3 are offset to form a regular space 16 intowhich fits an inner set of boards 18 against which abut another set ofinner boards 19, as will be clear from Fig. 3. These said boards 18 and19 may be covered by plaster 20,' or other plastic, or suitablematerial, and thus an inner wall may be formed of high heat insulatingqualities which is separated from the outer walls by an air space 21.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the details ofconstruction as Well as the arrangement of parts; and the uses to whichthis'structure may be put, without departing from the spirit of theinvention, and therefore, I .do not Wishv to be limited to the abovedisclosure except as may be required by th'e claims.

What I claim is I A l. In a building the combination of acornerconstruction; a set 1of wall members joined to said construction; asecond set of wall members joined to said construction and making anangle with said first named set; a set of overlapping porous, heatinsulating boardsv of material having fragile edges overlying said firstnamed wall members; a second set of plorous, heat insulating overlappingboards aving fragilel edges overlying said second named wall members thefra 11e end edges of which are spaced from te fragile end edges of saidfirst named set of overlapping boards; wedges located between saidboards, and said wall members; and an integral corner member of woodllocated betweenvsaid end Aedges and having side surfaces against whichsaid fragile end ed s abut, whereby the latter are protected rom injury,substantially as described.

2. In a building the.combination of a corner construction;l a set ofwall-"members joined to saidconstruction; a second set of Wall membersjoined to said construction and making an angle with said Iirst namedset; a set of overlapping porous boards having fragile endedgesoverlying said first named wall members; a second' set of porousoverlapping boards overlyin said seeond named Wall members having ragileend edges which are spaced from the end edges of said first named set ofoverlapping 10 boards; wedges located between vsaid boards and said wallmembers; an integral corner member of Wood located between said fragileend edges and having side surfaces against which said fragile end edgesabut, whereby the latter are protected from injury.; and an inner wallof porous, heat insulating board forming an air space inside said wallmembers, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature.

JOHN K. SHAW.

